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Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1921 – January 2, 1977) [1] [2] [3] was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His instrumental ballad "Misty", his best-known composition, has become a jazz standard.
Concert by the Sea is a live album by pianist Erroll Garner that was released by Columbia in 1955. [1] It sold over a million dollars' worth of retail copies by 1958, [2] qualifying for gold record status by the definition of that time but has never been acknowledged as such by the RIAA.
Erroll Garner was inspired to write "Misty" on a flight from San Francisco to Chicago which passed through a thunderstorm: as the plane descended into O'Hare, Garner looked through the window to see a rainbow glowing through a haze and was moved to begin composing "Misty" on the spot, striking imaginary piano keys on his knees as he hummed the notes he imagined (causing his neighboring ...
Ready Take One is a compilation album of previously unreleased Erroll Garner recordings. The album was released in 2016 by Legacy.The songs were pulled from sessions in 1967, 1969, and 1971. [1]
The Erroll Garner Archive is the collection of correspondence, sheet music, recordings of memorabilia of jazz musician Erroll Garner. [1] It is housed with the Archives Service Center, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh .
Contrasts is a 1955 studio album by Erroll Garner. [3] Giving it a four-star rating, Scott Yanow of AllMusic wrote: "Erroll Garner never recorded an uninspired solo, and this CD is as good a place as any to explore his joyful music.". [1] The album was issued on compact disc in 1988 under the title The Original Misty with a different track ...
Nightwind: An Erroll Garner Songbook is an album by the pianist John Hicks, recorded in 1997 and released on the HighNote label. [1] The album contains 10 compositions by Erroll Garner along with a tribute by Hicks.
The song has been recorded by many vocal and instrumental performers, including Ella Fitzgerald, the Blue Stars of France (a Billboard top twenty hit in 1956, sung in French), Lionel Hampton, Chris Connor, Mel Tormé, Erroll Garner, Quincy Jones, Chaka Khan, Aoi Teshima, Mariah Carey, jazz bandleader Count Basie, Japanese R&B singer DOUBLE ...